[vox-tech] Installing Adaptec SCSI Card

vox-tech@lists.lugod.org vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:14:45 -0700


I should have pointed this out when I wrote this, but will add this here
now. (Sorry to reply to my own post).

If you are planning to move from IDE/EIDE/ATA booting first to boot from
a SCSI disk first, and want a kernel for it, you may want to consider
building a kernel that has aic7xxx support built-in, and not as a
module.

-ME

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:02:19PM -0700, dugan@passwall.com wrote:
> AIC7000 support
> 
> Covers many of the 29xx series... the 29 (two digits) is the important
> part, as the rest often described the bytespeed. Not sure if it still
> does anymore though...
> 
> 2940 (40MB/sec), 2980 (80MB/sec), 29160 (160MB/sec)
> 
> I do have a 2980, 29160 and both use the AIC7xxx linux driver...
> 
> HTH
> 
> -ME
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:52:36PM -0700, Tim Riley wrote:
> > Hi LUGOD,
> > 
> > Has anyone installed the Adaptec SCSI Controler model 29160?
> > What device driver did you have to add?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tim Riley
> > 
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